Cenderawasih languages

Cenderawasih Bay
West New Guinea
Geographic
distribution
Cenderawasih Bay, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Language codes
Glottologcend1238

The Cenderawasih languages, approximately synonymous with West New Guinea languages, are a branch of Austronesian languages of Indonesia, found in the islands and shoreline of Cenderawasih Bay in the provinces of West Papua, Central Papua and Papua.

Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Biak is fairly well attested.